The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe

James Melton's accessible study examines the rise of the public in eighteenth-century Europe. Focusing on England, France, and the German-speaking territories, this is the first critical reassessment of what the philosopher JÜrgen Habermas called the bourgeois public sphere of the eighteenth century. Topics include the growing importance of public opinion in political life, transformations of the literary public realm, eighteenth-century authorship, theater publics, and new practices of sociability as they developed in salons, coffeehouses, taverns and Masonic lodges.

Author: James Van Horn Melton, Melton James Van Horn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/09/2001
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.02w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780521469692

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2002 pg. 1872

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